Colle, papier, ciseaux

Je l'ai fini!

Quoi donc? Mais mon scrap challenge entrepris en 2008 avec ma bonne amie Barb. Nous allions scrapper une page par mois à propos de nous, à partir d'un thème ou d'une série de questions. J'avais été plutôt bonne une grande partie de l'année mais je me suis mise à flancher vers le mois de septembre 2008. Depuis, j'ai fais les autres ici et là selon mon goût et mon inspiration. Mais ce soir j'ai décidé de finaliser tout ça en terminant la page du mois de décembre sur le thème bien sûr du temps des fêtes.

La voici donc cette page qui me rempli de fierté. Non pas par sa créativité exceptionnelle ou ses techniques particulières mais pour la simple et bonne raison que je suis heureuse d'avoir accompli le but que je m'étais fixé. Un peu en retard mais ne dit on pas qu'il vaut mieux tard que jamais?

Maintenant, il faudrait bien que je m'attèle à deux ou trois autres projets qui sommeillent dans mon coin scrap... MDR

Another one for the AC blog challenge

Sorry for the lack of news but there isn't much going on around here these days. It was a pretty relaxing weekend for us besides the usual errands and classes. The weather was great though. It was a nice change.

Here's another page for the latest AC blog challenge. This week we have to make a Fall page using at least two AC products. I decided to go with some pictures from the annual Chinese Lanterns Festival at the Montreal Botanical Gardens. It's one of our regular Fall outings. I feel very lucky to have such exhibitions around.

Everything is American Crafts: Bookshelf (L'Amour & Cervantes) pps, Chit Chat puffy Thickers, Details embellishment, Mini-marks rub-ons (photo corner & alpha)

Thanks for stopping by and having a look! :)

A page for the AC blog challenge

I haven't been able to participate to the fun AC blog challenges for a while but I had to this week as we had to scrap an Halloween page. As I took a couple of great pictures last Saturday and I just happened to have the new AC Halloween line on my desk, what more could I ask for?! LOL

So here's what I came up with:

Supplies: Bazzill cs, American Crafts Halloween line pps (All Hallows Eve & Costume Party), American Crafts thickers Delight fabric alpha stickers, JCre8 acrylic stamp, K&Co. adhesive rhinestones, Tattered Angels Glimmer mist (Juneberry wine), Signo uniball pen, Crafter's & Staz-on inks, Ranger Dabber (Snow cap).

I love this picture of the girls. It makes me smile as I see Laetitia looking all preachy towards her sister...

That's my first page since I finished LOAD last month. I needed a little break and some time to put some order back on my desk. I have a couple of cards to make now. I should probably get going on those before starting an other page though. :)

The weekend is almost here again. I won't be too sorry. I think I've been having a difficult time with the time change this year. I hope that I can fit some zzzz into my schedule in the next few days.

Thanks for stopping by! :)

Joyeuse Halloween!!!

Après de longues préparations tant pour trouver comment décorer nos citrouilles que les réaliser mais également pour décider en quoi on se déguiserait cette année, trouver les costumes, acheter les touches additionnelles et faire les ajustements de dernière minute, préparer les sacs avec les bonbons pour la distribution, ce soir était LE soir.

Dommage que la température n'ait pas été tout à fait au rendez-vous. Bien que la pluie ait cessée juste avant que les enfants débutent leur cueillette, le vent était toujours de la partie et le froid est revenu. C'est avec quelques épaisseurs sous leurs costumes que les filles ont fait leur tournée annuelle dans le quartier. La récolte n'a pas été aussi bonne que par les années passée. À peu près autant de gens donnaient des bonbons mais il semble qu'ils étaient un peu moins généreux cette année. C'est compréhensible avec la situation économique. Quant à nous, il ne nous reste aucun bonbon. Tout y est passé. :)

Laetitia avait décidé qu'elle se déguiserait en religieuse cette année. Disons que je n'ai pas eu grand maquillage à faire pour elle. MDR Quant à Morgane, elle avait choisi un costume desorcière d'automne au magasin cette année. Elle était très jolie avec ces faux cils et son appliqué en brillant. (mes amies scrappeuses reconnaîtront possiblement les blings de Kaiser...)  Voici le résultat:

 

 

Bon, maintenant je sens qu'il y aura déjà des discussions dès demain afin de penser à ce en quoi on se déguisera l'an prochain!

Voici mes deux dernières pages pour mon challenge LOAD. Le mois d'octobre est terminé et j'ai tout de même réussi à faire 18 pages.

 

J'espère que l'Halloween fut agréable par chez-vous! Bon weekend et n'oubliez pas de reculer l'heure cette nuit. :)

More LOAD layouts

October is nearing the end and I've been trying to get back into scrapping a page every night until the 31st. So far I've been able to do so. Here's the results:

 

I still have no idea what I'm going to do tonight. Hopefully it will come to me very soon. LOL

-ETA- Well, here's what I came up with for tonight. Today's challenge was once again a page without any pp and I couldn't come up with an idea of my own without my page looking exactly like the one I did last night (Only you). So, I revisited a sketch from the Scrapidées blog that I had used back in July.

When I surf different blogs, I always enjoy reading the little funny things that the kids said. I never remember the ones that the girls come up with from time to time and I don't think of putting them on paper right away either. But last night Morgane came up with a funny one. Laetitia was practicing her tongue twister for the week. It went like this: "If two witches were watching two watches which witch was watching which watch." She got everyone to try it out and say it outloud as fast as possible. After getting it a couple of times, Morgane came out with her own version: "If two watches watch two witches which watch was late!" I thought it was hilarious. Well, I might be kind of prejudiced though since it's my own kid. What do you think? LOL

Take care everyone and I'm sending big hugs to my friends that need them. :)

Another one gone already...

I really can't believe how fast those weekend slip by! We packed a lot in this one but there are still a thousand other things that I could have and wanted to fit in there. Oh well, it will be for the next one, even if with Halloween being on the Saturday, that will take most of the weekend.

I'm pretty happy with all the pumpkins that we made this year. I need to take a few more pictures at night though, the first ones that I showed you aren't crisp enough. Gotta work on not shaking. LOL Pat reminded me that we have a small tripod that I would be able to use, so we'll see. Until then, I took a couple of pictures in daylight to show off some of the details that were missing with the night ones:

 
  

  

Both girls had fun with their friends today. Morgane had a birthday celebration and Laetitia had a play date with her best friend from daycare. They hadn't seen one another for about two years now. Wow, what a difference it makes. They were so cute and they went back to playing like they had seen one another just yesterday.

Gotta put the final touches on the Halloween costumes and accessories this week, and get some other costumes out so the girls can wear those at school on Friday afternoon and at gym class on Saturday afternoon. They are very excited about it all. I can't wait to see the final result and take some pictures. I hope that I'll be able to take pictures before it's too dark outside once again. What a difference it made last year. :)

Before going, here's my latest page for the LOAD challenge. I'm happy I had a chance to scrap on Saturday and Sunday. I'm still having a lot of fun with my glimmer mists. I might have to put them aside though for a while since I don't know how to use them in many different manners and my pages will end up all looking the same real soon. LOL

Happy start of the week to all of you. Thanks for stopping by! :)

Voici la cuvée 2009

Eh oui, après avoir regardé les revues et discuté longuement de ce que nos citrouilles auraient l'air cette année, c'était ce soir que l'on procédait à la décoration de celles-ci. Toute la famille a mis la main à la citrouille y allant de ses idées et talents. Nous avons fait notre propre grand bal des citrouilles.  Nous avons eu beaucoup de plaisir et il n'y a pas eu de blessés graves. :)

Voici donc les nouvelles venues pour l'Halloween 2009:

L'apprenti sorcier quelque peu surpris d'avoir réussi sa potion (Laetitia)...

 

The Bride of Frankenstein (Morgane)

 

 et l'heureux couple, Mme & M. Frankenstein (Nathalie)

On ne voit pas très bien mais Mme a des boulons pour ne pas perdre la tête et M. a un oeil en fer blanc ainsi que quelques points de suture. LOL

Le bébé extra-terrestre (Laetitia)

Le carosse royal des rats (Morgane)

Et mon hommage à ma petite amie chauve-souris

Et Morgane faisant des incantations devant le chaudron avec la potion magique... Probablement afin de se garantir une bonne récolte la semaine prochaine.

Comme j'ai été en voyage d'affaire toute la semaine, je n'ai pas eu le temps de poursuivre ma participation au challenge LOAD. Voici celle que j'ai fait aujourd'hui cependant et qui reste dans le thème:

Et pour terminer, voici la vue que j'avais lors de mon départ de Sept-Iles hier matin à 6:00 am.  J'ai été obligée de me lever en même temps que les poules... et je me suis fais offrir des croustilles de maïs à saveur de citron et chili pour déjeuner. *sigh* Vive Air Canada...

Je vous souhaite un bon weekend! À bientôt! :)

Here's a few more...

so you don't think that I've completely abandonned the LOAD ship! LOL

I've been trying to fight off this cold-like thing ever since the other weekend. It's still kind of there leaving me with a weird sensation in my lungs and a never ending headache... I hope to get rid of this thing very soon. I can work around having a chest cold but I hate the pounding sensation in my head.

 

Have a good week everyone! :)
 
 

Fell off the wagon again...

First things first though. I must thank my friend Patti for suggesting this Cold FX medicine. Finally got myself some on Monday morning since just trying to get to bed early and rest didn't seem like it would do as much good as I wanted it to. The itch at the bottom of my throat is gone and my head doesn't feel as congested as it was starting to. :) Pat has taken some too this morning and was already seeing some improvement.

With a busy weekend and a busy week at work and trying to get some rest, I've fallen off the LOAD wagon yet again. I'm not feeling it right now and I've decided that it is better not to do a page than just do anything for the sake of it. I've already done a lot more than I have for a couple of months, so that's a good thing. :)  I'll probably manage to do a few more before the end of the month.

Even if I tried to rest a lot, I still found time to fit some clothes/shoes/boot shopping for the girls during the long weekend, some work outside to get things ready for winter as well as a last minute visit to La Ronde with friends. 

La Ronde at this time of the year is quite different with all the Halloween decorations and costumed people around. The kids managed to get into many rides and the grown-ups (minus this one) were also able to grab a couple of bigger rides.  Good thing that the sun was shining because the winds were pretty cold.

That's the closest that Morgane will get to a seat in the Goliath ride this year! LOL Hopefully she'll have grown enough by next June that she'll be able to accompany Laetitia and Pat in there. She was a good sport about this though. It might have helped that Alexandre didn't go either. ;)

Take care everyone! :)

I can feel a cold coming on...

I've been trying to lay low and get some zzz's because I can't afford to come up with a full fledged cold. Anyway, my throat is a bit sore and is getting sorer as time goes by. Not very good when I think I'll have to talk most of the day on Wednesday... *sigh*

Oh well, anyway, happy thanksgiving everyone. It doesn't matter that I'm not celebrating does it? LOL No turkey for this family. No big plans either. We took it easy so far and went shopping with the girls. Found some new clothes for them as well as new boots and shoes for Morgane. As much as we've been able to pass on the wardrobe from one girl to another most of the time, it has been a whole different story with the shoe wear...

I haven't been able to keep up with my LOAD challenge. I decided to go to bed early on Friday and spend some time with my family on Saturday night so scrapping took the back burner. I found a bit of time tonight to come up with a new one though.

So here's Thursday night's and tonight's pages:

 

 
  

Thanks for stopping by! I'm happy that I still have another day to rest before I have to go back to the frenzy of the office... Enjoy yourselves!